Joel Kaplan

Assistant Dean for Professional Graduate Studies

S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University

 

 

Joel Kaplan teaches investigative reporting, advanced reporting and

communications law at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Prior to that he covered City Hall for The Chicago Tribune; was a member of the newspaperÂ’s investigative team; and contributed several articles to the paperÂ’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of ChicagoÂ’s City Council. From 1979 to 1986, he was a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered the state legislature. In 1986, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series on then U.S. Rep. Bill Boner.

 

Kaplan graduated in 1978 from Vanderbilt University where he received a

bachelor's degree in political science and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

 

He is a co-author of Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final Rampage of Laurie Dann (Warner Books).  The movie version of that book ran on CBS in Nov. 1993. He was a Nieman Fellow (1985) at Harvard University and a Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School (1991), where he received a master's in the study of law.  He also has a master's in journalism from the University of Illinois.

 

Kaplan and fellow Vanderbilt alum Sam Feist were guest speakers at the IMPACT symposium in both 2001 and 2002.

 

Kaplan and his wife, Susan Miller Kaplan, who teaches on-line database

searching to Newhouse students, live with their four children, Ellie, Noah, Jack and Liam in Fayetteville, N.Y.